Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-04-29
THE NATION.

Three men were killed in railroad col
lision near Huntington, Ind, the other
day.
In the past eight months the people OF
this country have imported 10000, OOdozen
eggs.
Three hundred Mormon recruits landed
in New York the other day. They go
west
According to official returns beer drink
Ing is increasing TO a frightful extent in
this country.
Memorial services in honor OF the late
President Arthur were held in Albany on
the Goth inst
Senator Sherman denies the Cuban kid
mapping story, and pronounces 1t made
out of whole cloth.
The g. A. A. of Iowa, at the annual en-
campment adopted resolutions OF sym
PATTY for Ireland.
In the last twelve years the United
States has. received 100000 emigrantS
from the old world
The town of Lexington, Mass, celebrated
the ll2th anniversary OF the revolutionary
battle on the 10th inst.
Maj. John f. Blaine, the younger broth
er of James e.. Blaine, died at Hot Springs,
Ark, the other morning.
United States Treasurer Jordan, who
has been visiting in Paris for some time
sailed for home on the 2lst inst.
The German government lottery"
which has been operating extensively in
the United States, has been declared a
fraud.
All the boot and shoe cutters OF New
England numbering some 5000, have or
ganized for protection and are against
strikes
Seventeen thousand seven hundred and
forty cmgrants sailed for America via
Bremen from January TO March, both in
elusive
The Catholic university Of America,
which is to be erected just outside OF the
city limit of Washington, ha been in
corpora'ei.
Theatrical managers met in Chicago
the other day. and in ,eries OF resolu
tions roundly denounced the interstate
commercially.
a. c. Busby, supposed TO be a ringlead
er i'm the thefts from the Farmland road,
has been recaptured and lodged in Jail at
Dennison Ohio.
A case Of leprosy has been discovered in
LouisN .e KY, the patient eing John
Hastings. aged 80, who contracted the dis
ease in Honolulu.
John a. Logan, jr., has been presented
with IA half interest in the extensive quar-
ry business of his father-in-law, Mr. An
drews at Youngstown. O.
witness, in the Haddock murder case,
rec antly on trial at Sioux City, Iowa
swore on the body of his dead child that
Aren ,dorf killed Haddock.
Tn, total number OF trade dollars re
deemel to date is $5.243oO0, which amount
will be increased 40 600 by recent imoor-
tations at San Francisco from China.
The Iowa barbei wire manufacturing
company OF Marshalltown. la, ha, sued
the Wa,hburn 4 Moen company for s. 2j0,
900 damages for infringement OF patents
1t is rerortcd that Judge Montgomery
is TO he promote u the chief iusticeship
OF the supreme court OF the District Of
Columbia, TO succeed the late Justice Cart
ter.
Bushes, at Sprague's box factory at
Swan7ey, y H., has been abandoned on
account oil the interstate law. over 1900
boxes have Teen turned out daily at the
factory
Edward F. Bingham Of Ohio, has been
appointed chief justice of the supreme
court of the District Of Columbia 20 fiji
the cancy caused by the death OF Chief
Justice Cartier
A conductor on the Baltimore q Ohio
road, whose emigrant train was caught in
cyclone the other afternoon, reports the
birth Of nine German babies between Bel
laire and Mount Vernon.
Small locomotive engines are being ship
ped TO VI xico, Central and South America
from Nebraska in successful competition
with engines from England and France
The engines weigh from five tons up.
The United States circuit court at New
Orleans has 81 en- the Texas and Pacific
road, which is in the hands II receivers
immunity rom the long and short haul
clause OF tn, inter state commerce law
Alexander Mitchell president OF the
Chicago Milwaukee q st. Paul railroad,
died suddenly in New York on tho 18th
inst. MIR Mitchell was one of the most
prominent business men Of the northwest.
The president has APP on ed Sigourney
Butler of Boston 10 be- g oni comptroller
of the treasury, vice Judga Maynard pro
NOTED TO the assistant Secretaryship OF the
treasury. Mr.. Butler is but 99 years old.
The Vermont mabrle workmen number
ing 3. eco, have organi zed and propose 70
strike unless wage. shall be advanced from
II TO 80 cents. Store orders, high rent,
and tyrannical mara .ers are complained
of
destructive storm passed over Isle
OF Wight county, Va, the other night.
Houses were torn down and other proper
" ruined. farmer. his wife and two
daughters living at Windsor Station, were
kilel.
f. T. NJ. Simmons, who was manager Of
the Hotel del Monte at Monterey until the
lst inst and the day when the hotel was
destro, ed by fire has been arrested on
the charge of arson in having set fire TO
the hotel.
Rudolph Schuanbelt, the alleged thrower
OF the bomb at the Haymarket riot in
Chicago, has written from Christiana
Norway DENYING that he threw the bomb